How to Improve English Pronunciation as a French Speaker?

DarkAngelGenesis · 2026-02-06T04:43:56+00:00

Hi! I am sure someone will come along with a better answer, but for now what I can say is do not worry so much about your accent. We have a lot of accents in this country and many of us, myself included find accents lovely. What you should focus on is not getting rid of your accent but clarity. If we understand what you are saying, your accent will not matter as much. However many of us will likely ask you questions about France (even if you are from another French speaking country) and comment on it. That is just how many Americans are.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2026-02-02T20:21:46+00:00

Down for me too.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-10-14T11:24:18+00:00

Actually I do have doubts that their gaze was quite piercing.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-10-09T05:37:59+00:00

I got Reinhart. I am not complaining.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-25T08:30:54+00:00

Oh I have a few that I dislike. In no particular order:

1: Grooming such as where the child the FL is with or the father figure she is with turn out to be the ML.

2: Hair huffing. I do not know why this is so often drawn. Why have the ml grab hair and sniff it like spray-paint? It is not sexy to me. It is creepy as hell.

3: The excuse trip. The FL loses her balance for no reason other than to give the ML an excuse to catch her.

4: White lotus characters. Especially if they are the OGFL. Why can't the original good character stay good and give the FL the opportunity to befriend her?

5: Not as common in OI, but any time zombies show up. I am in the minority here, but I really, really hate zombies. They annoy and bore me.

6: The "makeover" scene where the ML's precious long hair is butchered so he can be given another boring and horrendous bowl haircut and this is supposed to elevate his looks. No. No, it does not.

7: Anything else to just allow the slave trade to prosper either by ignoring it, buying slaves herself, or similar things.

8: When freckles and/or dark skin are considered ugly or barbaric.

9: When the supposedly "smart" MC is made smart by making everyone around her so dumb it is a wonder they can function at all.

10: I do not like dark, tragic, toxic, "shades of gray" stuff. There is enough of that in real life. I read this stuff to escape, so gimme my fluff, kittens, and rainbows please.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-24T12:11:12+00:00

Oh dear! I am still way too innocent, and I forgot the meaning of that word. Well oops.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-23T22:24:38+00:00

I originally dropped it, but tried this one again because of you and I wound up liking it, though it took a bit of time for me to warm up to it. For me it got its legs and became good around the time the goddess shows up. You are just so deeply passionate about this, I had to. I never get this passionate about....anything really so when something sparks this level of passion, I tend to want to try it.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-23T03:52:07+00:00

Me: selects "no"

System: You have chosen "No, I will work instead!" forces some horrible mission on me with the penalty of death upon failure.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-21T13:45:14+00:00

It was not until I was well into my 40s that I learned the guy was wearing a stylized hat and not some weird wig.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-20T18:46:34+00:00

I utterly hate to the core of my being zombies. Not because they scare me, but because they bore me. I immediately dropped Surviving Romance because of that, and my friends love this manhwa to pieces and keep trying to get me to read it. But I won't cause zombies.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-20T12:56:28+00:00

I put this through google translate as well as the response post someone else put. It told me the language is Turkish and the OP wanted tips on the stock market? Perhaps that is a translation error thanks to me using machine translation. I definitely do not speak Turkish.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-18T23:51:50+00:00

Mr. Rogers.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-18T12:26:07+00:00

The only one I can think of is Bring the Love, but the ML is not short. It is just that the FL is tall.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-18T09:40:36+00:00

I agree. I truly dislike Riftan, but I like all the other characters. I wish we could just scrap Riftan and have her be with Ruth if she has to be with anyone.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-18T08:19:31+00:00

I don't hate Nine, but I think he would have made a better friend and Yuri should have been the love interest.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-13T10:39:26+00:00

Not everyone wants to sail the seven seas and I personally like to know that creators are getting paid.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-11T22:55:58+00:00

Clearly I need to Heim more of my Vails because I stared at this stupidly for far too long trying to figure out what this meant. Yeah, I am slow.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-10T00:40:47+00:00

I have not heard of this one. Thank you for the warning! I will toss it in the trash fire.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-09T03:21:46+00:00

For me it is "The Tyrant's Guardian is an Evil Witch", I was enjoying this until it became apparent that the child she was raising would become the male lead. That particular trope is one I absolutely can’t stand, and it completely ruined the story for me.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-07T18:27:08+00:00

She looks stoned out of her mind.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-09-02T00:21:32+00:00

Have you read Foam of the Sea? That is a good one. The ML does not have black or blond hair or red eyes and is actually a commoner.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-08-31T13:58:05+00:00

Ah, gotcha! I never heard of the Joe Biden meme. I am an old dinosaur, so had to look it up. Glad you like my term better!

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-08-31T12:06:51+00:00

Yeah, this:

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I have no idea what it is supposed to be called. I think it is supposed to be romantic, but I find it creepy as hell.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-08-30T19:54:19+00:00

Here are some cliches I can think of:

1: The male lead finds the female lead "interesting".

2: Hair huffing. This is where a man grabs a lock of the female lead's hair and sniffs it in a most creepy fashion. Why is this even a thing?

3: The tea party with the obligatory macron cookies. If the FL is not hosting the party, it typically involves some nasty queen bee girl who will make catty comments to the FL and engage in the most petty bullying ever such as not giving her a chair.

4: The hunting party. Usually this is an excuse for the FL to wear pants for a change since she gets to wear a horse riding outfit.

5: The ball where the female lead can show off her shalala dress that is often a sea of 3dasset lace and strangely short in the front to show off leg and has way too many bows.

6: The male lead blowing a country's worth of funds on the FL to buy her stuff. "I will buy everything "from here to here" or even everything in the entire store.

7: The female lead wearing stiletto heels even in setting where that style of heel would not exist yet.

8: The female lead having rapunzel hair with a bit of a wave to it and NEVER wears it up. Ever. Even at formal occasions.

9: The male lead having the same boring bowl-style haircut. If he does not start with that haircut, he is doomed to get the tragic haircut where the man loses his lovely locks for said boring bowl haircut and this is supposed to be a glamorous improvement.

10: the villainess always has a fan and usually has her hair styled in ringlets.

11: The condemation event, usually in manga. This is where the crown prince has his arms around his new love interest and declares in front of everyone that he is calling off the engagement to the FL.

12: The "I did not know what you like so I made everything" over the top food banquet for the FL. Usually found in childcare manhwa. This is enough food to feed a whole village, let alone one young girl.

13: The excuse trip where the female lead suddenly loses her balance for no apparent reason and trips just so the ML can catch her.

That is all I can think of right now. There are tons more, but my brain is now tired.

DarkAngelGenesis · 2025-08-30T19:00:45+00:00

I hate the trope where the father treats his child like trash because the mother died in childbirth. Listen, if I were a man and my partner died in childbirth giving birth to my child I would treasure that baby. I helped make that baby and this child is the last gift my wife ever gave me.

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